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Gratitude is the great multiplier. How so? It’s a law. It’s just the way the universe works.

It’s because the Law of Attraction is always at work in your life…every second, every minute, every day, and every year, throughout your whole life. Many people don’t think of it that way, but have the idea that, ‘it’s there for me when I want to use it’.

Thanksgiving is a time when we get together with our families and give thanks for everything we have. What better time than Thanksgiving to start applying the Law of Gratitude every day. Gratitude is the great multiplier when it comes to the Law of Attraction.

I love the saying, ‘What if you woke up TODAY with only the things that you thanked God for YESTERDAY.’

The fact is, when you start feeling gratitude for more of what you have, you will have more. It always works. At Thanksgiving, it feels so good to sit down surrounded by family and friends. Why not feel this love and gratitude every day? During one Thanksgiving dinner at my home, we each took a moment and shared at least one thing that we were grateful to have in our lives. Perhaps, this Thanksgiving you could sit down and writing a list of the things for which you feel gratitude, and then take a moment to read your gratitude list every day. Of course, you will constantly be adding to it, won’t you?

Gratitude sends you gifts

Imagine how plentiful your life could be, if you took the time every day to multiply your love and prosperity by express by expressing your gratitude. There is an expansion principle in the Law of Attraction that says, ‘What you focus on expands.’ When you add the feeling of love and gratitude to your focus, it multiplies the attraction exponentially.

How do you become ‘more grateful’ than you already are now? When someone does something nice for you, really feel the gratitude, rather than just saying thank you. If someone were to give you flowers, each time you look at them, feel the gratitude for the gift, smell them, and love their beauty. One step beyond gratitude is ‘awe’. Being in the state of awe is one of the highest vibrations there is. Being in the feeling of ‘awe’ is to constantly have overwhelming joy with the wonderfulness of those things that surround you and come into your life. It’s redirecting a negative thought in the other direction and making it not only a positive thought but an awesome thought…and feeling.

Gratitude is feeling good every one of the 86,400 seconds in day. Gratitude is refocusing a negative thought that slipped into your mind by giving thanks, Enjoy the process, because when you do, your life will move forward in a beautiful, prosperous, harmonious way.

Giving thanks can cause miracles in your life. Let’s face it, gratitude is the best attitude!

It may surprise you that gratitude is important in a successful marriage. In fact, gratitude is the most important factor to a satisfying, long-term marriage.

A 2005 study (Schramm, Marshal and Harris) found that higher satisfaction in marriage occurs when the parties actually express gratitude to their mate. Appreciation was listed as one of the most important factors to a satisfying long-term marriage.

Newlyweds also viewed partners who expressed gratitude in a more loving way.

The partners who expressed gratitude in their relationship regularly for 3 weeks actually saw their marriage become stronger.

How does gratitude affect a relationship? It was found in a study by Lambert and Fincham in 2011, that when you express appreciation for something about your partner, it gives your partner a more positive view of you. It also helps the marriage partners to feel more invested in a long term relationship, as well as both partners in the marriage being able to voice concerns in the relationship.

How can you express gratitude in your marriage?

Help your marriage by looking for things you like about your partner and then sharing it

Help your marriage by expressing gratitude in a way you wouldn’t normally do so, such as leaving a note

Help your marriage by doing little things that you normally wouldn’t, such as making something special that you know will be appreciated

Now you know the number one love secret to improve your marriage, get going on your new gratitude habit today. Create the best marriage you can have by incorporating tiny little things daily.

Are you grateful? Everyone says, “Yes, of course I’m grateful,” but most people don’t have the gratitude habit and don’t show it in their daily actions.

First of all, why should you be grateful? Because when a person is grateful, it not only benefits the receiver, it also impacts the person giving the gratitude tremendously. When you are grateful, you are sending out energy that expands the recipient and comes back multiplied. Being grateful also makes you more aware of what’s happening in your life. This awareness brings opportunities that others wouldn’t see.

Every day you have an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life by being grateful. Every day you have a chance to spread joy and send light to those around you by showing gratitude. Always make sure you are giving thanks enough to be happy.

Be grateful for little things and big things will come to you

Every day you have to decide to be a ‘Grateful Gracy’ or a ‘Dudley Downer’. Grateful Gracy is always looking for the good in people and things. Dudley Downer isn’t grateful and spends his day complaining about what he doesn’t have.

Dudley Downer will complain about the traffic. Grateful Gracy is grateful to have a job. Dudley Downer will complain about the things that bother him about his co-workers. Grateful Gracy finds things in her co-workers that she can complement. When she does this, her co-workers will find things that they like about her. Grateful Gracy will always have a better relationships.

Gratitude is mindset that is catching. You can start the gratitude epidemic by taking the time to create the habit to be grateful.

Be grateful by catching your children doing something right.

Be grateful by complementing your spouse for doing something that make you happy.

Be grateful and always say thank you when someone does you a favor.

Be grateful when you can help a neighbor.

Be grateful for tiny little pleasures that exist in your life which you probably haven’t ever looked for yet.

When you start a gratitude epidemic, get ready for increased prosperity, for people to respond to you differently, and for joyful happenings to move into your life. When you are grateful for little things…beautiful, big things will come to you.

What do you give? How much do you give? Why do you give? Answer those questions and I can tell you how your life is. Do you want more money, more customers, more recognition, better relationships, a meaningful romance, or a better job? I know exactly how you can get it! It’s simple and it only takes a little effort. Make a quick change in what you are putting out-in what you give- in the area you want to have increase.

What happens in your life is in direct relationship to what you give. You are a broadcasting and receiving station. You receive what you give out.

Let me show you what I mean. Right now – tell me what you were just thinking. What were you broadcasting or did you give outward in your thoughts and feelings? What did you last say or do for someone? What did you give without expecting something in return?

The bottom line about your life is that what you give out in your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions is exactly what you receive back in kind. Every thought you give to the universe, every emotion you give to the universe, every word you give to the universe, and every action you give has its counterpart in some circumstance you will eventually encounter.

What a great favor you do yourself when you give out messages of support, cooperation, acceptance, generosity, and love to others. When you do, you are ordering these things back into your life.

God works with universal laws and once you understand how the universal Law of Attraction works, you understand that it’s you who induces others to act toward you the way you want them to act—by what you give out to them.

Give unconditionally in your relationship

If your relationship isn’t exactly the way you want it, remember that every person in a relationship can only receive the response he or she unconditionally gives the other person.

You are the “master of your fate” and the “captain of your soul” because you have the power to give out thoughts, to give out feelings, to give out words, and give out actions, that creates every circumstance in your life.

When you give out positive energy, the universe returns that energy multiplied. The more you give, the more the universe returns multiplied. Give more service to your customers and watch your sales go up. Give more praise and appreciation to your mate and watch your relationship improve. Give to someone in need and watch your income increase. Give praise to your children about what you appreciate about them and watch your relationship improve. Give appreciation for the health you have, whatever it is, and watch your health improve. One great thing that happens when you give thanks is that you are automatically opening yourself to receive.

Give out complaints about your customers and watch your sales shrivel. Nag your spouse and see how your relationship withers. Give nothing away to someone in need and watch your income drop. Give words of criticism behind the back of your co-workers and watch the security of your job diminish or someone else get a promotion. Give complaints that you are always sick and watch your health get a little worse. You might not see it quite this clear cut in your life, but you will see it. A word of caution – sometimes, it’s a little difficult to recognize that the energy you give out is transmitted right back into your life. It may not always bounce back exactly in the same area as give it out. It WILL bounce back multiplied.

Isn’t it fun knowing you can improve anything in your life you want, anytime you want? Simply give more!

Happy people are grateful people. Happy people don’t complain. Do you ever complain?

Do you complain about your husband sitting on the couch at night watching too much TV? Be happy and grateful that he isn’t out of the house at the bars.

Do you complain about your all the things you have to do around the house? Be happy and grateful you have home. Many people are homeless.

Do you complain about the government? Be happy and grateful you live in a country where you can complain about the government thanks to the first amendment. I’ve lived in one where you can’t and it’s not a happy place!

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Do you complain when you have to park so far out in the parking lot that you have to walk a long way to the mall. Be happy and grateful you have a car to park and that you are healthy enough to walk to the mall.

Do you complain having to pay taxes? Be happy and grateful you have a job that creates the opportunity for you to pay taxes.

Does you teenage daughter complain that she has to do the dishes? Be happy and grateful that she isn’t out on the streets.

When you are happy, you see all that you have instead of all you don’t have. Be happy! Don’t complain.